Mother guilty over fire deaths of four sons
BBCA woman has been found guilty of the manslaughter of her four sons who died in a house fire while she was out shopping.
Deveca Rose, 29, had left her two sets of twins alone when a fire ripped through her house in Sutton, south-west London, on the evening of 16 December 2021.
Kyson, Bryson, Leyton and Logan were unable to escape the locked house and died under a bed, her trial at the Old Bailey heard.
Rose was found not guilty of a single count of child cruelty.
She was granted bail and will be sentenced on 15 November.
The guilty verdict was reached with a majority of a 11 to one among the jurors.
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